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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.;

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IMPROVEMENT INQHAPPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT 0F ALCOHOL'IC AND OTHER -SPIRITS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 111,791, dated February 14, i871.

Tc all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN D. TURNER,

I of the city, county, and State of New York,

My invent-ion, although applicable under` the same or a suitablyrmodified arrangement of its details, or certain of them, to the treatment of various liquidsl other than alcoholic,

` and to the manufacture of vinegar, or acidulation of other liquids, is especially designed for the aging or improving 'of' wines and alcoholic liquids, such, for instance, as whisky and other spirits, and will here be described as so applied. v

The leading principle of its action is the treatment ci the liquid to the oxidizing influence or action of ozone or ozonized air; and,

A4to this 'end I employ a process for obtaining "said gas or air, which, 1n the abstract, forms 'no part of this invention, and which consists in passing a strong current of common air through a dame andv collecting the products in a suitable receptacle, the ozone being formed and carried into the receptacle during the' rapid action of the burning gases 0f the flame;

`Tl1elii1vention embraces various combinations and arrangements of details for carrying this principle ot' actioninto ei'ect; likewise includes a`cl1arred surface tov the interior of the vessel in which the treatment takes place.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, .A represents a close tank or vessel of'anysuitable form, and of any required height, in which the ozone or ozonized air and liquid to be Createdare brought in contact, as hereinafter described.

,Said vessel may be made oi' different mate rials, and be lined with glass or, other vitremshnaterial to protect it frein the destructive :1ct-ion of the ozone; but a simple and effect ive construction is to make it of wood or other suitable material, and to char or line it with `charred wood on ythe inside, as at b, which charred surface secures the necessary protection. i

rThe spirits to be treated may be drawn by a force-pump, B, from a vat or other vessel,

C, and are discharged through a pipe, 0,. and

rose Din a shower or divided form within the upper portion of the tank, from whence it passes by a corrugated bowl-shaped conduct-u or, E, onto and over in succession a series ot'k reverse cones or dish-shaped disks, F; provided with central openings, and which may be radially corrugated and serrated on their edges, to effect a' spreaded or thinl and divided distribution of the spirits over them in its passage down through the tank. The spirit,

thus trickling or descending in a divided mauner toward the base of the tank, is exposed to the action of an upward or opposite current or currents of ozone'or ozonized air, not produced by electricity, but by the process hercinbefore referred to, under an advantageous combination or arrangement of devices. Thus,

G is a fari or other blower for producing` a forced blast or current cf atmospheric air, which is conducted bya pipe, d, into a close distributing tube or belt, H, varranged to surround the tank, and provided at frequent or suitable distances apart with vents or nozzles c on the inside line ot' the belt, and facing in moderate proximity the same, iiaring orbell-mouthcd glass tubes f, which are made tc pass through 'a water belt or trough, I, and from thenceinto the tank below the disks F.

The trough I may be supplied with water by a sprinkling tube orV tubes, g, arranged te discharge the water onto the tubes f, for the lpurpose of securing to the latter their requisite coolness.

The flame through which the air passes in its way from the nozzles e to the tubes j', to

eii'ect' the production of the ozone, maybe a Y gas iiame or llames frcm suitable burners h, arranged to occupy a transverse and intermediate though lower pcsition relatively to the ,nozzles c and tubes f, which burners may project from a gas pipe or' belt, J, supplied from v asgasomcter, lr, or otherwise.

A suction-fan, L, may be arranged to con- 2, nect with the top of the tank, Jto-assist in sustaining the necessarr current or currents of air through' ,the burnin g gas for obtaining; Ozone or ozonized air, and to ret-ard or hold the liquid under treatment in suspension, as it were', Within the tank, or otherwise, to effect a more thorough treatment of the spirits by the ozone.

V'lhe treated liquor is drawn or run off, asl required, from the bottom of the tank A byV any suitable devices. v

Whati's here claimed, and desired to be se- I cured by Letters Patent, is-

'1. Ilhe combination of the a1r-blast, vents,

Mimes '2. The combination7 with the elements 1e' cited in the` preceding claim,' of tbc suctionfan or devicelL, essentially as specified.,v

3. In 'combination with the ozonedistributing devices or tubesf, the tank A, provided. with a charred lining or interior surface, b7

substantially as described,

l REUBEN-D. TURNER. Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNEs,

1t. E. Hannan 

